His calligraphy is never stunning, but it is scattered and timeless!

In the "Book Genealogy", Sun Guoting talked about the difference in calligraphy between the father and son of the second king, "It is the book of the Right Army (Wang Xizhi), which is more wonderful at the end of the year, when the fate is thoughtful and comprehensive, the ambition is peaceful, it is not exciting, and the wind rules are far away." Zi Jing (Wang Xianzhi) has been down, and he has not drummed up his strength, and marked it into a body, and he is not alone in his work, nor is he a person with a suspenseful look. ”

The meaning of Sun Guoting's words is that in his old age, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has reached a good state, because at this time, Wang Xizhi's life and mental state have reached a new realm - plain. At this time, the blandness is the blandness after the splendor, and it can also be said that it seems to be the most strange old and spicy state of the ordinary, so Mi Fu also once said that the calligraphy in the "last years of the Right Army" was "old and easy". The calligraphy of Wang Xianzhi and his descendants, in the view of Sun Guoting, all have a pretentious and indulgent attitude, and they are not as intriguing as Wang Xizhi, because the looks of these people are far from Wang Xizhi, that is, they have not reached Wang Xizhi's "thinking through interrogation, peaceful ambition, not agitated, and the wind rules are far away" bland rush and situation.

Wang Pet "To the King Shou Wuzha" part

Collection of Shanghai Museum

Although Wang Pet calligraphy adheres to the simplicity of Wang Xianzhi's calligraphic form (dot painting, knot body), it is not different from the writing state of Wang Xianzhi. The writing state is unlearnable. Wang Xianzhi's writing status was criticized by Sun Guoting as "drumming for strength", but on the other hand, this is also Wang Xianzhi's advantage. Zhang Huaihuan believes that Wang Xianzhi's masterpiece of grass is "elegant and unique, independent throughout the ages, and the family can be respected as his children." Mi Fu also said, "The son is innocent and transcendent, and his father can be compared!" Wang Xi's writing mood is closer to Wang Xizhi's unemotional blandness.

Light, as an independent work of art personality, was respected in the Tang Dynasty, such as Sikong Tu's "Twenty-Four Poems" has a "diluted" product, that is, "the plain is silent, and the magic is subtle." Drink Taihe, Crane and Fly. Judas is the wind, and the silk is in the clothes. Reading the sound of the fence, the beauty of the return. The depth of the encounter is the greater the desire. Off the shape, the handshake has been violated. ”

The art of dilution comes from the simple and indifferent heart. Wang Pet's life is exactly the indifferent life of being silent, lone crane and flying. In this way, many people may think that Wang Pet is a hermit who does not care about the world and only cares about his own pleasure. Indeed, although Wang Pet's life lived a reclusive life, he had the world in his heart and was "inner saint" at the same time, but the ambition of "outer king" was never extinguished. He desperately wanted to enter the society and exert his ambition to govern the country and the world, and this idea carried through his life.

Wang Pet "To the King Shou Wuzha" part

Collection of Shanghai Museum

We look at his five-character ancient poem "Morning Rise", which reads: "The ancients went to me for a long time, and the sun and the moon became obstacles to cultivation." There is no such thing as a thousand miles, and it is empty of feet. The song of the universe is exciting, and the martyrs are in the same year. ”

"Send Chen Ziling will try three songs" (its third) and yun: "Drive to Yan Zhao, see Taixing day and night." It was cold and frosty, and layers of ice blocked the river beams. The wind and gravel are fierce, and the sunset is stiff. The wilderness is depressed, and the travel geese are flying south. Boys should work hard and want to go in all directions. ”

It is precisely because he has always been full of ambition that he has gone to the exam eight times. As a result, he fell eight times, and finally Yi Zhusheng was paid into the Nanjing Guozijian and became a Tai student. It is reasonable to say that Wang Pet should show some indignation or mania in calligraphy, but all the unhappiness is like a cloud of smoke in his eyes, and he is idle and indifferent. This reminds us of the other side of his poetry: quiet and indifferent. Let's look at the following two five laws:

Sit on the rain on the south mountain, and the cloud in the north courtyard of the high mountain. The hall is flying bamboo green, and the fog is dark and the peak is lost. Gu Xiangyan in the middle of the ying, Tao Yin outside the sky to hear. Famous incense scattered treasure book, Haosi is atmosphere. — "Rain Sits in the Stone Lake Grass Hall"

The sun and noon retreat, the white clouds empty courtyard. The warblers do not leave the bamboo, and the mountain atmosphere suddenly crosses the autumn. Gui Yu qing into the void, Xuan window purple green floating. There are laurel trees at the end, and this place can be submerged. — "Noon"

Wang Pet "To the King Shou Wuzha" part

Collection of Shanghai Museum

These two poems are plain and quiet, and the traces of the earthliness are all gone, which is very different from the previous two poems. One is flat, one is agitated, this is the two sides of the world of wang pet poetry, but also the two sides of his inner world.

However, Wang Pet's calligraphy is rarely agitated, it is always so light, even if it is a turbulent wild grass, in his writing is also simple and long, the pen appears in a cool world. The calligraphy of Dong Qichang in the late Ming Dynasty, the Bada Shanren of the Qing Dynasty, and the hongyi master in modern times also won with lightness, but the lightness of Wang Pet's calligraphy was different from theirs. Although Wang Pet and Dong Qichang are both light, but Wang Pet's calligraphy is light and simple, Dong Qichang's calligraphy is not simple in pointillism and knotting; looking at the Bada Shanren and Master Hongyi, they are also simple, but looking at the calligraphy process of their two families' lives, their calligraphy is from the brilliant and colorful to the emptiness of the Zen realm, although Wang Pet also has Zen meaning, but more is the lightness of the Taoist fairyland.

Part of Wang Pet's "Letter to Nancun"

25.7 x 34.0 cm

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Zong Baihua, in the article "On the Beauty of jin people", talked about the highest aesthetic ideal that jin people should pursue:

The Jin people experience nature with an illusory mind and a metaphysical meaning, but they can be clear and empty in the surface, and establish the highest crystal beauty artistic conception!

Originally, what the Jin people hoped to create was a clear, empty, crystal clear artistic conception. When explaining this artistic conception, Zong Baihua borrowed the Southern Song Dynasty poet Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Nian Nu Jiao, Crossing the Cave Garden": "Jade Jian Qiongtian thirty thousand acres, with my flat boat one leaf." The moon is shining, the Ming River is in the shadow, and the surface is clear. Leisurely heart will, the wonderful place is difficult to say with jun. With such a crystalline beauty, Wang Pet also has true enlightenment. Wang Pet has been with Shihu for twenty years, and he once experienced this situation in Shihu after the snow, described in a poem:

There are good hills in common, and the Yang River is on the ship. The water in the flower pond is green, and the snow in the pine ridge is green. Ji color back to the silver Man, fresh clouds roll painting screen. Zi Zhen returned to the valley to repay the spirit of the Northern Mountains. — "Snow Lake and Friends Together"

Wang's cursive book "Han Yu Sends Li Wish to Return to Pangu"

The Qing Dynasty painter Shi Tao once said, "It is better to vomit blood and ten buckets than to mesh a ball of snow." This means that if a painter wants to paint well, he should use the blood-soaked effort to pursue painting skills, and it is better to mesh the snow and enhance the painter's spiritual realm, and the only way to paint is to paint with the heart of ice and snow - a clear and clear heart without dust stains. In the stone lake behind the snow, Wang Pet found a crystal clear artistic conception. The realm is created by the heart, the heart and the realm are originally one, and the clear poetic realm is not a portrayal of its soul.

The cursive writing of Wang Pet also has the beauty of the artistic conception of this poem: ice and jade, ethereal and empty. His calligraphy creates a sense of emptiness through a very simple brushwork and a structured and loose chapter layout. Wang Pet's pen carries a clear atmosphere, sparse and beautiful, pavilion and heavenly; in the agility to see the void, or even a little gentle and feminine, this is the unique feature of Wang Pet calligraphy in the use of pen, knot body and chapter.

Wang's cursive book "Han Yu Sends Li Wish to Return to Pangu"

However, Wang Pet's calligraphy does not lie in pen and ink, but goes beyond pen and ink, creating an artistic conception that is directly connected with the clarity of heaven and earth outside the pen and ink. Su Shi's "Sending the Lonely Master" Yun: "Quietly moved in groups, and the emptiness was in the ten thousand realms." "The calligraphy of the king's favor is to seek tranquility in the spirit, to seek the spirit in the emptiness, like the orchid in the mountain, growing in the unnoticed mountain stream, leisurely and self-sufficient.

Wang Pet's calligraphy expresses the richest connotation with the least amount of brush and ink. Such a plain, distant, exquisite and transparent art can purify our hearts, and when the later Hua Tiansheng read the poem manuscript of Wang Pet's self-book, he could not help but sigh: "Halal and run, such as the quiet chong and the people." That is, it is a debilitating miserly. ”

Part of Wang's "Nine Songs"

Collection of the Art Museum affiliated to Princeton University, USA

Therefore, reading Wang Pet's calligraphy is not to give you visual stimulation and shock, nor to make you happy, dance, or follow, but to lead you to a quiet and plain, unworldly, high and clear world, so that you temporarily abandon the hustle and bustle in front of you and walk into the realm of too simple and clear. In this situation, you can return to the original self and relax your mind at ease.

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